record was introduced in java 14 but this was my first time seeing it

Am I clown who has never encountered it and should be reading about new features in new versions, or am I excused because I don't make version decisions and for being trash at my job.

You should read about new features.
But what you really, really should do is switch to Kotlin.

Wait they have existed for THAT long?? I swear they were added just recently

@12bitfloat I think we're heading to version 27 soon or was it released recently?

@BordedDev Last time I was doing Java, 12 was the newest shit 💀

I never read new language features. java has an awful lot of really random nonsense. it's like the everything ancient language, that keeps getting every other language's random feature added to it so people "won't abandon it" lol

as long as it works and makes the software make money seemed fine to me. to be fair nobody even likes java, it's considered a dumb outsourcing language so I doubt anyone would really care

you should always at least try to keep up with changes.

at the very least to _know_ what you're avoiding by not upgrading, or what you're missing out on by not upgrading.

...or to be aware of any deprecations, perhaps?

There is so much stuff about C++ I don't know and don't use. Mostly because the stuff we use is trashy to begin with. New features scare people.

@Demolishun C++ might be the only exception. But I‘m not even sure about that.

@Lensflare we are planning on rewriting some stuff with new C++ this year. So it is getting better.

@Demolishun

> New features scare people.

People who are scared of new features scare me.

@Demolishun Are you going to use modules?